Needing to remove Vice President Henry Wallace from the Democrats’ 1944 election ticket, President Roosevelt sent him on one of those foreign junkets contrived to refresh sagging egos in the warming balm of publicity. This one took Wallace to China, Mongolia, and Siberia. At his departure, the president said, “I think you ought to see a lot of Siberia.” Russell Baker reviews "His Final Battle," Joseph Lelyveld’s "splendid and richly detailed portrait of Franklin Roosevelt in the final months of his life."
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